The Labor enquirer., 1887-03-26
Millionaires and Monkeys,
Capitalists and Chinese
Will Rule Hereafter.
The Facts About the Recent En-
ploymentof Monkeys in Ken
lucky Hemp P Plantations.
What French Scientist Has to say
Aboat TAeir Capacities for
4 Doing Aca's Work.

tD 40 absolute iact that monkeys Arc
now employed In the place Of men to
labor on American plantations
A wealthy farmer Of Madison county,
Kentucky. has imported . number Of
these chattering ''laborers," and reports
that siter few weeks patient training
they fll the places Of the negroes very
nicely. He has already sent for ten
more of the useful" imitators Of human
workingmen.
Since they have proved 90 successful
in the Kentucky hemp fields II is now
proposed to experiment with them in
picking cotton. One monkey will strip
hemp as rapidly as two men, and it is
seriously claimed that they can be edu.
Gated to do all kinds of manual labor.
| Jehan soubise, q French scientist who
has made speciality of the study Of the
ISimian race says that alonksys sre sus-
ceptible of laughter and of manlfesting
delight. and as we'll are also capable Of
showing sorrow and Of weeping.
Soubise quotes Humboldt as saying
that the saimiri Of Peru are extremely
sensitive, and that 1t the least cause Of
chagrin their eyes fill with tears,
Ifthey are made labor slaves of as
proposed. they will need to weep.
Upon the economic side of the ques.
ton Soubise gives cages of experiments
and details showing that the ape can
easily be made a domestic animal like
the dog, that it can be properly trained
in various domestic duties. and even
prepared BY regular course Of instruc.
tion to take its place as factory opera
tive in our large industrial establish.
ments.
"Driftus" in the Chicago Enquirer,
Jr., has hereon the follos ing comment:
1T will not be long before some en-.
terprising Yankee will be contracting
for vessel loads Of the animals to take
the places of the striking miners, coal
and freight handlers. 'longshoremen and
otherS whose perverse pride and ex-
travagant demands will not permit
theu to eat wet cornmeal and peanuts.
We are friends to the lsboring men
Never shall 1t be said that we submitted
without protest to an invasion of the
chimpanzees, ringrails and other species
of the monkey tribe. We draw the line
at Chinamen-animals who wear their
tails on their heads, but We have no use
for the posterior sort. Why, what are
we coming to? Shall we tamely submit
while troops of monkeys throng our
streets, our fields and our factories, CON.
taIninating our women and children by
their vile presence? Never by the
great horn spoon. neverl Just think Of
it'll Imagine q strike at say Armour's,
for instance. Troops of monkeys are
brought over from Borneo, from Ceylon
and South America to do the killing,
cutting, scraping. smoking and sailing Of
the meats which compose the bill of
fare of our "first families" Sheriff Mat
son orde out his special deputies to
prevent intimidation. Governor o.
lesby responds to call for the militia
to protect these grinuing scabs from the
just fury of the strikers. Our "besp cit.
izens. backed BY that everlasting bull
wark Of Chicago morality, the Citizens
association, wax wroth at the reasonable
demands Of the strikers, that these in.
vaders Of their peace and happiness
shall be suppressed. What . picture for
honest laborers to gaze upon 1t is sb-
surd to imagine that we shall tamely
submit to such indignities It IL
burning disgrace to our civilization that
such wrongs should be endured. We
reiterate our demand, the mo keys
must go